EPITAPH OF WILLIS LEMUEL BUGG, I - Smith County, TX

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Originally published in the East Texas Family Records, Volume 5, 
Number 4, Winter 1981, by East Texas Genealogical Society. 

EPITAPH OF WILLIS LEMUEL BUGG, I

Willis Lemuel Bugg, I, was born in 1817, in Richmond Co., Georgia, 
the son of Nancy and William Bugg, a prominent planter. The family 
migrated to Noxubee Co., MississIppi about 1832. Willis married 
Caroline Jane Eidom, daughter of John and Caroline Eldom, in that 
county February 11, 1836.  The Eidom and Bugg families owned large 
cotton plantations in both Noxubee and Carroll Counties. In the early 
185O's, both families migrated to Knoxville, Cherokee County, Texas. 
Both Bugg and Eldom were instrumental in the develop­ment of Old 
Knoxville.  A large plantation owner, Bugg operated one of the first 
cotton gins, and jointly owned tile Bugg & Eidom Mercantile Store.  
In the early 18701s, Bugg and Eldom, joined Judge W. W. Morris, Judge 
Stephen D. Morris, Dr. B. M. Hanna, and Hon, Enoch C. Jones in 
promoting the International & Great Northern Railroad through East 
Texas.  In 1871, Bugg and Eidom gave a parcel of land and money for 
the establishment of a free public school on the W. T. Smith Headright 
on Caney Creek, near Troup.  In the 1880's Bugg died in Troup.  He 
was interred in Mixon Cemetery by his wife.

RECORDED BY THE STATE OF TEXAS 1980.

THE ABOVE INSCRIPTION ON GRAY GRANITE HAS THE STATE SEAL AND IS LOCATED 
IN THE TROUP CITY CEMETERY.

Bibliography:  HANDBOOK OF TEXAS, Vols. 1,11, & III: Bugg, Morris, 
Jones, and Hanna.  W. W. Morris Biographical File, University of Texas
Unpublished memoirs of the late Mrs. Willis Lemuel Bugg, III
Deeds in the Cherokee County Court House, Rusk, Texas
Roach, Hattie Joplin, The Hills of Cherokee, 1952.

The above copied by Mrs. Mary Katherine Ayres Bugg, Troup, Texas.